The Conflict Of Syria During The Arab Spring Protests

“Security forces opened fire, killing at least four protesters and within days, the protests grew into rallies that gathered thousands of people.” The killings of these four were ultimately regarded by many as the first deaths of the Syrian uprising.

With a death toll in the hundred of thousands, and millions displaced, the Syrian civil war has become a violent mark on the world’s history. What started as a peaceful protest has spread over five years, has evolved into a war with a tyrannical government, a clashing rebellion, and terrorism fighting either side. But what is it that really fuels the immense amount of violence? It can be narrowed down to four groups that are obvious. The government and the rebels are the forerunners in violence in the war, sure, but they aren’t the only ones. There are the terrorist groups, with skewed views to support the destruction of people and things around them, and in itself the stark difference of the religions and ethnicities of Syria. Who causes

For many ongoing years now, Syria has been in a war with thousands of fleeing refugees, terrorists that could be attacking at any minute, and the constant involvement of other countries that has done more harm than their planned good. I believe that the foreign involvement of countries such as the US and Russia have fueled more of the ongoing violence in Syria.

The editors of Britannica Encyclopedia bring up how the Syrian War started due to “protestors demanding an end to authoritarian practices in the Assad Regime that have been in place since 1971 under Hafiz al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father” (“Syrian Civil War,” par. 1). With this want of an end of an era rebel militia groups sprung up over a very short period demanding change in the Syrian government. Militias started small by attacking government meetings and targeting specific Syrian government officials. In a little under a year Syrian militias began a full-fledged war between themselves and the Syrian government. Almost immediately after the Syrian War was declared a war the United Nations jumped in to aid the innocent civilians who were being hurt from the weapons of warfare. Since Syria was already a poor area the war only made it worse and left many homeless and exposed to the fighting in the streets. With over 25,000 dead and 2.5 million in need of food, water and medical supplies the Syrian War crisis has received responses from all over the world… but it’s not enough to bring a sense of safety to the innocent people of Syria (Hilleary pars.

Since the start of the Syrian civil war, over 250,000 people have been killed in acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The United Nations has recently declared acts of genocide and crimes against humanity to be occurring in Syria, yet a massive military intervention has yet to occur. The conflict has now begun to effect mainland Europe and western powers, as the rise of ISIS has become a threat to the whole of the international community. With Germany taking in millions of refugees, they have absorbed most of the inherent terror risk, but with the recent airport bombings in Brussels and the attacks in Paris, ISIS has shown that if they are not met in Syria with grand military force now, they can and will carry out these same terror attacks in the United States and other western countries including Canada and the United Kingdom. This paper will give a brief overview of the history of the current Syrian conflict starting in 2011, and will determine whether the United Nations and the international community has jurisdiction to intervene with military force under specific documents like the Rome Statute, the United Nations 2005 Outcome Document, the United Nations Charter, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by comparing the current Syrian conflict to the Libyan Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973. Lastly, this paper will provide options for Prime Minister Trudeau for Canada 's participation under the legal jurisdiction of

The Syrian Civil War is responsible for the taking the lives of about 470,000 people; 55,000 of which were children. The war broke out when rebels in Syria started to protest and fight against the government. It has said to be the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. The war has effected people of all ages making them flee, suffer from mental illnesses, and suffer from great poverty.

Syrian jets bombed a marketplace in Douma, Syria, killing more than 100 people in August of 2015 (Robins-Early 5). This was an attack that occurred in the midst of the Syrian civil war, a war between the government (President Bashar al-Assad), and rebel civilians. The current civil war revolves around a conflict regarding the balance of power within the country, while an immense number of innocent civilians are being caught in the center of the violence and instability that the brutal war is causing. Over 4 million people have left the country as refugees, while some are unable to escape to horrific violence (Robins-Early 1). Amongst those who are stuck within the country, children are quitting school to make money to support their families, as their parents die in the midst of the war. Innocent people- citizens of the region- are being infected by diseases that have been eradicated for a decade and a half. The Syrian civil war has caused much violence and instability to increase amongst the citizens of the war-torn country, as seen through the loss of education and childhood that the children must face, along with the disease epidemics that the entire population must face.

The genocide in Syria had begun in the early 2011. The Syrian president has cracked down, and started to do brutal things to the people. They used tanks, artillery, and attack helicopters against the protesters. On August 21, 2013, they started to use a new chemical weapon. The chemical weapon had killed over 1,400 people. The invoice of these chemical weapons has reached about 240,000. About 12 million men, women, and children were forced to flee from their homes, and houses.

After reading the news this entire semester, there is a series of horrific events that have stood out for the shear amount of violence and bloodshed that has occurred thus far. This being the war in Syria that has taken over 500,000 lives thus far, this estimate including the deaths of civilians, fighters on all sides, and those that have lost their lives as a result of fleeing the conflict. In more recent news, Eastern Ghouta in Syria has received the blunt of the conflict as a result of anti-government and terrorist groups stationing themselves in the area. Although Russia has ordered a five hour ceasefire five that occurs every day , this has done little to stem the violence as Syrian civilians have feared leaving their homes to risk fleeing

What started as an uprising against the Syrian government has become a proto-world war with nearly a dozen countries embroiled in Syrian conflicts. One of these, being a Civil War between the Syrian government, rebel groups, and the Islamic State (ISIS). Rebel groups supported by the United States are focused on toppling the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. The groups are funded, supplied, and trained by US militia. However, Russia, Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah want to keep Mr. Assad in power. Majority of airstrikes on rebel positions have been coordinated by Russia and the Syrian government. This, indirectly, creates tension between the United States and Russia. The third group, the Islamic State, wants to both unseat Mr. Assad

Voice holds a value and can literally change the world. In March of 2011, a group of people peacefully protested against the Syrian government; however, that little action rippled into a civil war within a major country. Multiple parties got involved as well as majorities and minorities. The war in Syria is a civil war but many other countries are involved because they have personal interest in the country.

Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the

With the escalation of protests that would mark the so-called Arab Spring, Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad responded not just through brute force but also by the raising of the salaries of the public servants, the cancellation of subsidy cuts, the waiving of fees and the allowance of illegal building (Syria Report 28 March, 3 and 4 April 2011). In this response one can see one element that the regime has deployed in its quest for survival that of the deployment of patronage to which many would claim that the Syrian regime would bribe their own people so as to remain in power. Though one can see this as a desperate attempt of a dying regime, this may more of an oversimplification. What would be noted that this form deployed here would be considered Patronage or Clientalism which more than just a survival mechanism, it is the normal aspect of conferring legitimacy upon a regime that rules in a corporate manner with little appetite for representative government. In this system of governance, the state is more or less detached from the public at large and is mainly tied through an elite group that would support the activities of the state machinery, because of this lack of legitimacy the trust between the communities are insufficient and to win this trust the ruler would engage in an activity called Clientalism in which he would reward a certain group in exchange for support. Such a system is prevalent in a majority of authoritarian states, especially Syria,

As an Arab I constantly heard other Arabs around me blame every problem big or small in the Middle East being caused by the Western colonizers that colonized the Arab states in the 20th century. Now I defiantly don’t blame the British and French for all of our problems but indeed they are the root cause of some of the problems in the Middle East, and their meddling in the current affairs in the Middle East is adding on to the problems we have and causing new ones erupt. Out of all the problems in the Middle East the Syrian Conflict is one of the most brutal conflicts, thanks to the former colonizer of Syria, France. The Syrian Civil war has been one of the most tragic conflicts in modern times, and in four years has led to the killing of

Over the past couple of years we have certainly seen a drastic change in the Arab world dating back to December of 2010 in Tunisia as protestors forced ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country. This was the beginning of the Arab spring, which saw a revolutionary wave spread across many Arabic countries resulting in four leaders being forced from power in the countries of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. The sociological perspective on conflict states that the world is in a continual struggle and this is true as there is always going to be tension between two competing groups or multiple groups who don’t necessarily agree with a certain issue (Schaefer & Haaland, 2012). In most cases, especially in